University Archive

Alumni David Bryant – International Lawn and Indoor Bowler – written into the Oxford University Press Dictionary of National Biography

David Bryant studied to become a teacher at St Paul’s College, (a predecessor college of the University of Gloucestershire), and he appears on the St Paul’s student register for September 1953 – June1955 He is acknowledged as the ‘greatest bowler…

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Christmas Closure 2023

The Special Collections and Archives will close for the Christmas break on Wednesday 20 December 2023 at 5pm. The service will re-open on Wednesday 3 January 2024 at 1pm If you’d like to visit the Special Collections and Archives before…

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University of Gloucestershire staff and students will be reading a selection of works from The Cyder Press books in the chapel at Francis Close Hall on Friday 8 December at 6pm.

but if you are unable to make this reading, or would like to spend more time browsing, Special Collections and Archives hold The Cyder Press collection:  along with the Dymock Poets collection:  which you can access by appointment

Read MoreUniversity of Gloucestershire staff and students will be reading a selection of works from The Cyder Press books in the chapel at Francis Close Hall on Friday 8 December at 6pm.

Alumni David Bryant – International Lawn and Indoor Bowler – written into the Oxford University Press Dictionary of National Biography

David Bryant studied to become a teacher at St Paul’s College, (a predecessor college of the University of Gloucestershire), and he appears on the St Paul’s student register for September 1953 – June1955 He is acknowledged as the ‘greatest bowler…

Read MoreAlumni David Bryant – International Lawn and Indoor Bowler – written into the Oxford University Press Dictionary of National Biography

A snapshot in time: two teacher training students from the University of Gloucestershire’s predecessor colleges, St Paul’s and St Mary’s, married in 1849

The university’s Archives were approached by a lady in Australia, who wanted to know if we held in our collections, any records of the early days of the colleges. She had been told that her Great, Great, Great Grandparents studied…

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Artists’ Books Collection

The Artists’ Books Collection was established in 1998 following the exhibition Books As Art held at Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery, Cheltenham Town Hall and the Pittville Campus of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education (a predecessor college of the University…

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4 Poets

Artist Peter Edwards (b.1955) will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Gloucestershire in November 2021. Peter is a member of our alumni, having studied a BA Hons at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design (Pittville Campus) 1975…

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